On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Thomas Backlund <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm tracking a bug in ath9k in 2.6.31-rc7 series, and have been > cherrypicking patches from wireless-testing to try to get a stable ath9k... > > The problem is that if the user configures the interface it works, but have > a weak signal and tends to drop the connection. > > If he reboots, the signal is even weaker, and also drops the connection > faster. He has to reconfigure the interface to get it back up. > > So here is what I have applied: > > net-wireless-ath9k-downgrade-ASSERT-in-ath_clone_txbuf.patch > net-wireless-ath9k-Manipulate-and-report-the-correct-RSSI.patch > net-wireless-ath9k-RX-stucks-during-heavy-traffic-in-HT40-mode.patch > net-wireless-ath9k-Handle-tx-desc-shortage-more-appropriately.patch > net-wireless-ath9k-Trivial-fix-in-Kconfig.patch > net-wireless-ath9k-Update-beacon-RSSI.patch > net-wireless-ath9k-Fix-bug-in-PCI-resume.patch > net-wireless-ath9k-Set-HW-state-properly.patch > net-wireless-ath9k-Fix-bug-in-retrieving-average-beacon-rssi.patch > > > Now with theese patches the signal strength is correct, and the connection > survives the reboot, but does disconnect when transfer > load increases.
BTW if you notice any *small* patch which made a huge difference in something very significant please consider e-mailing linux-wireless and Cc'ing [email protected] about it with as much details as you can provide. Stable will not apply large patches to fix small issues or large non-trivial patches to fix some non-oops. It really varies what will get applied.. but if some few small patches *really* help its worth noting at the very least. Because we cannot get some of these patches into 2.6.31 what we tend to recommend is to upgrade just your wireless subsystem to the newer stable kernel release. This can be done with something like: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download/stable Luis _______________________________________________ ath9k-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel
